Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Dean Wilbur Lucius Cross of the Graduate School announced this fall that he would retire from the faculty at end of the year, a full professorship in the English department was left vacant. After 14 years of well-received teaching at Yale, popular Mr. French hoped that the fruits of his long labors might be rewarded. But another consideration arose last month. He was offered the Provostship of Avon Old Farms, a pretentious two-year-old experimental school at Avon, Conn...
Among the 400-odd gridiron guests: Tammany Chief John Francis Curry, Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin, Senatorial Host Walter J. Fahy, National City Bank President Gordon John Rentschler, the Governors of Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, Maryland; Senator Grundy (very popular), but not Senator Brookhart...
...claimed to be descended from the divine Three-Legged Crow which guided the first Japanese emperor, Jimmu, in all his conquests. Crow Scion Mabuchi credited whatever evils befell Japan to her contact with "debased Chinese learning." His greatest pupil, Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) wrote perhaps the most popular and typical of tankas...
...passengers in his father's launch before he was old enough to start the engine; his aquatic stunts earned him the title of "the baby water wizard." As Gar Wood's mechanic he won many a race in boats built by his father.* Chris-Crafts tenders are popular among yachtsmen (General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan recently bought one for his new yacht, the René) because the hardware and woodwork of each one is contrived to harmonize with that of the mother ship. Of every 100 Chris-Craft boats turned out in Algonac, 13 are destined...
...ladder. Called one day for jury duty in Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly. His reporting of the long-drawn 1924, Democratic National Convention in Manhattan established him as most popular U. S. announcer. Soon no football game, world series, horse race, prizefight, inauguration was complete without...